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Fat Chance by Deborah Blumenthal6/10/2023 Loved by her readers for presenting a happy façade despite her own weight problems, she’s a lady with issues of her own. Overweight journalist Maggie O’Leary became screamingly popular after the genesis of her unconventional column, Fat Chance. Although it does pick up in the middle of the story, so much of the book is spent offering weight loss advice/statistics while paying lip service to the notion that it’s okay to be obese as long as you love yourself, that the actual story gets lost somewhere along the way. The debut novel of nutritionist Deborah Blumenthal it falls short of the mark owing to a slow start, an unlikable protagonist, and a choppy writing style that was hard to follow. Billed as the insightful story of a spunky columnist who crusades for acceptance of fatness and obesity in America, Fat Chance puts the spotlight on the insecurities of any woman who has every looked in a mirror and hated what she saw (and used Sara Lee as therapy).
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